Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently 2)

Douglas Adams :The Long DarkTea-Time of the SoulScanned and corrected by the world-famous Dirk Gently.You can find me on iRC.Pls send me GREETS in your diskmag/demo :)I'm interested (scanning!) in c00l books. Books, articles, dictionaries etc... in Finnish and Estonian are preferred.This file is in (MS-LOSS) WORD format. Try NOT to convert it to plain TEXT file, and DO NOT REMOVE my ScanRight!I recommend you using WinWord with 2 coloumns and condensed prop chars with size 8 or with noncondensed/prop/6. If you are rich enough, you can use noncondensed ones with char sizes 9-10, but with only ONE coloumn!Version 1.01, second, corrected release (it was a real pain in the ass to scan/correct this book, as the printing was VERY lame)Another Dirk Gently-scans, under correction, to be released s00n:Maailmanlopun Ravintola (Finnish - Restaurant at the end...)Elm, Maailmankaikkeus ja Kaikki (Finnish - Life, the Universe...)Lord of the Rings (English) (Full!)Teach yourself Japanese (English)Teach yourself Finnish (English)*I'm looking for help to correct LOTR. I don't have time to do it (1500 pages and LOTS of scan-errors).

If you feel brave enough to correct it, let me know! :-) Of course I send the book to you via snail-mail as well!*Dirk Gently has nowadays released:Neil Gaiman: Don't PanicDouglas Adams: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective AgencyWhen a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two,HeathrowAirport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual peaple tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.No rational cause could be found for the explosion - it was simply designated an act of god. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two ofHeathrowAirporttrying to chatch the 15.37 toOslo.Funnier than Psycho... more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge... the new Dirk Gently novel, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.Douglas Adams is the best-selling author of the Hitch Hikerbooks: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant atthe End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, SoLong, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has appeared in moreforms than one might reasonably expect, most of which flatlycontradict each other. the new Dirk Gently novel, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.Douglas Adams is the best-selling author of the Hitch Hikerbooks: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant atthe End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, SoLong, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has appeared in moreforms than one might reasonably expect, most of which flatlycontradict each other.

It has appeared as a BBC radio series (itsoriginal form), a BBC TV series, all sorts of different records,cassettes, and CD's, a computer game, and also, apotheotically,a bath towel. A series of graphic novels is currently in prep-aration, and the motion-picture version is confidently expectedany decade now.He is also the author of the Dirk Gently books, Dirk Gently'sHolistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of theSoul. He is currently working on another book in this series.He has also written The Deeper Meaning of Liff with JohnLloyd and, most recently, the travel and wildlife book LastChance to See, with Mark Carwardine. He is making moreTV programmes these days and also frequently lectures oncomputers and semi-extinct parrots.He lives partly in Islington,London, partly inProvence,France, but mostly in airport bookstalls.Also by Douglas Adams in Pan BooksThe Hitch Hiker's Guide to the GalaxyThe Restaurant at the End of the UniverseLife, the Universe and EverythingSo Long, and Thanks for All the FishMostly HarmlessDirk Gently's Holistic Detective AgencyWith John LloydThe Deeper Meaning of LiffWith Mark CarwardineLast Chance to SeeDouglas AdamsThe Long DarkTea-Time of the SoulPan Booksin association with William HeinemannFor JaneThis book was written and typeset on an Apple Macintosh IIand an Apple LaserWriter II NTX. The word processingsoftware was FullWrite Professional from Ashton Tate. enthusiasm andsandwiches have been beyond measure. enthusiasm andsandwiches have been beyond measure.

I also owe thanks andapologies to Sophie, James and Vivian who saw so little of herduring the final weeks of work.Chapter 1It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth hasever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport".Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degreeof ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. Thisugliness arises because airports ane full of people who are tired,cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed inMurmansk (Murmansk airport is the only known exception tothis otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the wholetried to reflect this in their designs.They have sought to highlight the tiredness and crossnessmotif with brutal shapes and nerve jangling colours, to makeeffortless the business of separating the traveller for ever fromhis or her luggage or loved ones, to confuse the traveller witharrows that appear to point at the windows, distant tie racks, orthe current position of Ursa Minor in the night sky, andwherever possible to expose the plumbing on the grounds that itis functional, and conceal the location of the departure gates,presumably on the grounds that they are not.Caught in the middle of a sea of hazy light and a sea of hazynoise, Kate Schechter stood and doubted.All the way out of London to Heathrow she had suffered fromdoubt. She was not a superstitious person, or even a religiousperson. she was simply someone who was not at all sure sheshould be flying to Norway.

But she was finding it increasinglyeasy to believe that God, if there was a God, and if it wasremotely possible that any godlike being who could order thedisposition of particles at the creation of the Universe wouldalso be interested in directing traffic on the M4, did not want herto fly to Norway either. All the trouble with the tickets, finding anext-door neighbour to look after the cat, then finding the cat soit could be looked after by the next-door neighbour, the suddenleak in the roof, the missing wallet, the weather, the unexpecteddeath of the next-door neighbour, the pregnancy of the cat - itall had the semblance of an orchestrated campaign ofobstruction which had begun to assume godlike proportions.Even the taxi-driver - when she had eventually found a taxi-